subject: Time Allocation For Your Affiliate Marketing [print this page] There are only so many hours in a dayThere are only so many hours in a day. We all have things in our life to deal with besides our business of Affiliate Marketing, yet for many, this business is our dream to be able to make money and enjoy doing it. We all have our various reasons for why we do Affiliate Marketing and most of us find we either don't have the time we would like to spend on growing our business, or know that we aren't using our time wisely or productively. Time management can be difficult for all of us.
There are countless books and articles on learning time management within your life, so I'm not going to attempt to help you structure your entire world. I will give you some ideas on how to make the most out of your Affiliate Marketing hours.
First of all, just being aware of how much time you have available to work on your Affiliate marketing will help you make the most out of that time. If you only have one or two hours out of your day to sit and work at your computer, you might reconsider spending all that time reading forums or organizing your notes. I'm not saying these aren't good things to do, but, are you spending too much time on them? Are you procrastinating or not sure how to move your business forward? Be honest and possibly admit that you, yourself are the reason you aren't making the money you'd hoped for with Affiliate Marketing.
There are four areas that you need to be focusing on, and depending on how much time you do have available daily, will depend how much time you spend on the various areas.
- Learning/Training - This obviously depends on your level of experience and eagerness to try more advanced website development and marketing strategies. It is important to move forward, and I feel it should be attended to for at least a few hours a week. Now, if you are reading and taking notes more than an hour a day when you only have two hours a day to spend on your Affiliate Marketing, you may want to consider cutting back on this, or freeing up time in other areas of you life.
- Marketing your Affiliate products - This is where you are making your money so treat it as high importance. You don't want to put up one little text ad or write one article on the product you are promoting and sit back to let it do all the work. You may make some money off of it, but why not spit out several articles a week and see about implementing other possible marketing techniques like pay-per-click or one of the others that don't cost you a dime?
- Website Work - If you are new to Affiliate Marketing, you may not have a website yet, although this is something that will really move your business forward. Keep adding fresh content through blogs and newly published updates on your featured products. People won't come back if it is stagnant. Slap up a new Click-per-Action product that relates to your site and bring in even more income.
- Take Action - This is a daily must! Whether it is finishing an article and getting it submitted (which can be done five minutes after you finished writing it), or adding a post to your blog page. If you've had a busy day, at least send out an email or facebook post mentioning your website. Do something that actively moves your Affiliate Marketing business forward EVERY DAY.
Most of us have days that pass at alarmingly fast rates and we grow frustrated at not having the time to get the things done we would like to. In regards to your Affiliate Markeing business, it might be just a matter of re-evaluating how much time you have to spend on it, and how you currently are utilizing that time.
